Anglophone struggle: Gov’t intensifies crackdown on alleged SCNC activists

BY CYNTHIA AKUM The North West and South West regions of Cameroon have remained restive since the outbreak of the Anglophone crisis in 2017. Investigative findings and reports from many human rights groups and non-governmental organisations have condemned extrajudicial killings mostly by the military, on innocent civilians including children and pregnant women, and the burning of houses. It should be recalled that Common Law Lawyers went to strike in October 2016 to protest against government’s attempts to annihilate the Common Law practice in a constitutionally bilingual and bi-jural Cameroon. The strike lasted for over a year. Anglophone teachers in the…